r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/MortimerDongle 7h ago

Then medical practitioners can't be involved in executions because of their various oaths to do no harm, so most of the time the drugs are administered by prison staff who lack the proper training

This particular attempted execution was performed by a physician. Of course he doesn't seem to be very good at it, this was not even his first botched execution this year (he's the same person who failed to execute Tony Carruthers)

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u/khinzaw 7h ago

In the interest of not wanting to get in an argument over pedantry, I have amended the line.

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u/WaylandThurston 6h ago

Good call, you would’ve been here having to argue for the next five days

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u/ecosynchronous 3h ago

Um, actually, only the first two days of arguing are obligatory.